Hello,
On Sat, 17 May 2014, Walter Dnes wrote:
>On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 01:21:08PM +0200, David Haller wrote
>> The Linux text-console font is also very good.
>
> I used to do email and various other stuff on a VGA2 screen (640x480).
>There are 5 lat1 consolefonts...
>
>/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-08.psfu.gz
[..]
>/usr/share/consolefonts/lat1-16.psfu.gz
[..]
> Then video drivers came along that insisted on taking over text mode,
>and running at native framebuffer resolution. I have a 1280x800
>notebook that would be perfectly legible with the screen kicked into
>640x480 mode, and lat1-12 font selected. Unfortunately, the Intel
>driver takes over and 1280x800 pixels text mode is barely legible 160
>columns x 50 rows. On some machines, it was possible to override things
>and force 640x480 mode in consolemode at bootup. Unfortunately, that
>forcing would also stick in X, where you do not want 640x480 pixels!!!
Hm. I've no idea about the intel-drivers, but nvidia plays nice with
"nomodeset" or rather, I just use "vga=normal" on the kernel
commandline. I do not have any graphics driver in the initrd, the
nvidia module is loaded only as X gets started.
Maybe that is the problem I have with newer driver versions (I use
295.49, any newer I tested just gives me a blank screen). I should
try using nvidiafb again.
> The consolefont program can select any available font. Question...
>* Plan A) can I get 16-pixel wide lat1 consolefonts from somewhere?
emerge terminus-font
might help. E.g.: setfont ter-132n. But that seems to need a
framebuffer, but you seem to have that ;)
I like default8x16 better though. At least at vga=normal which gives
me a nice 80x25 terminal ;)
>* Plan B) is there free software around that can modify/tweak the
> regular fonts to double their width?
emerge psftools
man -k psf
HTH,
-dnh
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